On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 16:29, Sudhakar Govindavajhala wrote: > > > > > > I have something like this in my mind. The thing is that I would like > > > not to expose my original email address. For this, I need to mask both > > > the From and reply-to address. So, what you said only solves half the > > > problem. :-) > > > > Sounds to me like you want to "munge" the headers, which is a much more > > advanced idea than Evo allows. To do this you are going to have to use > > something more lower level than Evolution. It would not be a good > > practise for Evo to _easily_ send emails without a FROM header. That > > would be a sad day indeed as any John Doe could become a spammer. > > Not really. To do what I need to do, you need human intervention, and > human intervention means the rate of spam is very small.
From my experience, human intervention will not slow the dy/dx of spam. That being said I think it is impossible for a legitimate message to be sent without a "FROM:" header as the SMTP server asks for it before the DATA transaction begins. > > You may need to write a text filter program to overwrite the "FROM:" > > header with the "REPLY-TO" header and then strip out the REPLY-TO > > header. Some simple perl code should do the trick and then pipe your > > message to `sendmail` for it to hit the MTA (sendmail/postfix/whatever) > > to send it on it's way. > True. But then I use remote IMAP and SMTP to send the mail. I do not > have a SMTP server running on my machine. Oh, that's too bad. I hear they are very difficult to set up. > I doubt if procmail can be used for outgoing mail. Does not make sense. Sudhakar, I have tried to offer you some ideas, but you seem to have all the answers. I wonder why you are even posting to a mailing list in the first place. Good Day Sir, Christopher Ness -- Software Engineering IV, McMaster University PGP Public Key: http://nesser.org/pgp-key/ 16:50:47 up 2:06, 3 users, load average: 0.40, 1.07, 1.16 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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